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- ↑ H. Beam Piper, by Frederik Pohl, at The Way the Future Blogs; published January 10, 2010; retrieved November 19, 2018
- ↑ Blowing His Horn: The Twisted Fiction of Sarban, by Paul StJohn Mackintosh, at the Los Angeles Review of Books ; published December 7, 2016; retrieved November 19, 2018
- ↑ H. Beam Piper: A Biography, by John F. Carr (chapter 20: "Piper's History of the Future"); published January 28, 2014 by McFarland & Company